An AI developed by researchers at Meta convincingly negotiated with humans while playing an online version of the board game Diplomacy. It w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348152-metas-board-game-playing-ai-can-pass-as-a-human-in-game-negotiations/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A machine learning model has revealed how crystals of sodium chloride slowly weaken and then rapidly crumble to dissolve in water
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347717-we-finally-know-in-detail-how-salt-dissolves-in-water/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Gliding birds tend to have long and thin wings, but seagulls seem to have a trick that lets them soar on short, wider wings
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348060-why-do-seagulls-have-dark-wings-it-may-help-them-glide-in-the-air/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The lack of progress on cutting carbon emissions at COP27 has drawn criticism, but climate summits must provide deals that encourage nations..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348073-what-are-climate-summits-actually-for-and-how-can-we-make-them-work/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Functional adrenal glands have been grown in the lab by coaxing a type of stem cell to develop in a certain way by constantly tweaking the m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347987-lab-grown-adrenal-glands-could-help-treat-hormone-related-conditions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A simulated version of Paris where universities and telecommunication hubs are connected by a quantum communication network suggests that ex..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347674-quantum-city-simulation-shows-how-to-make-paris-sized-quantum-internet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The first trial of the ‘SharkGuard’ technology reduced the bycatch of blue sharks and pelagic rays by as much as 91 per cent, but didn't imp..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347826-electric-pulses-drastically-cut-number-of-sharks-caught-by-accident/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The performance of image-generating AIs drops when trained using images previously created by other AIs, which may create problems for them ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347232-filling-the-internet-with-ai-created-images-will-harm-future-ais/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Algorithms can pore over astrophysical data to identify underlying equations. Now, physicists are trying to figure out how to imbue these “m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634141-200-will-artificial-intelligence-ever-discover-new-laws-of-physics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Investment that the UK government started in quantum technologies in 2013 seems to have paid off by enabling the existence of companies at t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347783-uks-quantum-computing-sector-is-flourishing-after-early-investment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After blasting off on the enormous Space Launch System rocket, NASA's Orion capsule has flown within 130 kilometres of the lunar surface as ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347840-nasas-flagship-artemis-i-mission-has-flown-past-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Eris rocket developed by Australian company Gilmour Space will be the first Australian system to go into orbit if it successfully launch..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347513-australias-first-rocket-is-set-to-launch-into-space-in-april-2023/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Despite a landmark deal on finance for ‘loss and damage’, the package agreed in Sharm El Sheikh falls short on plans to cut emissions and le..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347834-countries-agree-to-create-climate-damage-fund-in-historic-cop27-deal/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Cloud gazing isn’t only an Earthly pastime. You can help planetary scientists by cloud spotting on Mars, finds Layal Liverpool
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-800-join-the-hunt-for-clouds-high-up-in-the-martian-atmosphere/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Writers and film makers are always using the multiverse as fuel for their plots, but Nathan Tavares gives it a new twist in A Fractured Infi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634130-800-a-fractured-infinity-review-multiverse-plot-trope-comes-of-age/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A UN program to revamp weather forecasting in lower-income countries could improve global climate models and help people prepare for extreme..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347671-cop27-forecasting-overhaul-may-reduce-extreme-weather-hazards/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence from Facebook owner Meta that is designed to write scientific research papers and Wikipedia articles has attracte..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347520-metas-galactica-ai-can-write-scientific-papers-but-is-it-any-good/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Three people with paralysis of all four limbs navigated a cluttered room via a mind-controlled wheelchair with a reasonably high level of ac..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347757-people-with-paralysis-navigate-a-room-via-a-mind-controlled-wheelchair/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The only evidence of a species of centimetre-long white clam was a fossil collected 85 years ago, until a researcher stumbled upon one livin..
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The eastern Pacific is expected to be unusually cold for the third winter in a row, contributing along with climate change to extreme precip..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347813-rare-triple-dip-la-nina-expected-to-occur-for-first-time-this-century/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A prediction model that anyone can try has given Brazil a 25 per cent chance of winning the men's football World Cup – but the results are s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347699-brazil-picked-as-2022-world-cup-winners-by-alan-turing-institute-model/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New prefixes in the International System of Units have been confirmed, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta fo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347426-ronnametres-and-quettagrams-have-joined-the-ranks-of-si-units/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A Swedish Security Service investigation has found traces of explosives at a location where mysterious leaks appeared in pipelines from Russ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347719-nord-stream-gas-pipe-explosions-were-sabotage-say-investigators/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Large quantum programs build up errors as they run, but a technique for mitigating these errors has allowed researchers at IBM to run over 1..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347546-ibm-quantum-computer-runs-largest-quantum-program-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Advances in neuroimaging, AI and wearable tech are helping to overcome the problems we face in having to communicate our pain on a subjectiv..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-600-new-ways-to-measure-pain-can-help-us-communicate-how-bad-it-really-is/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Some bird species fly vast distances to enjoy an almost unlimited summer. We are still learning about how they evolved and how they know whe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-the-migrating-birds-that-roam-the-world-to-live-in-an-eternal-summer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a study of more than 330,000 people, five genetic variants and being educated to university level were together linked to short-sightedne..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347636-myopia-linked-to-five-genetic-variants-and-going-to-university/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived sometime between 72.1 million and 83.6 million years ago, is one of the largest marine turtles eve..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347552-gigantic-turtle-from-the-dinosaur-era-was-almost-4-metres-long/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Why talk and behaviour-based interventions that don’t use any drugs, as well as genetic therapy and bacterial toxins, are promising new weap..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-700-the-new-pain-treatments-that-may-finally-stem-the-need-for-opioids/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We don't know exactly how the current megadrought in south-western North America will end, but there are examples to learn from throughout h..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347393-us-megadrought-could-upend-life-as-we-know-it-just-look-to-history/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An assessment of almost 940 kinds of Brazilian cat and dog food has found that producing wet food creates 690 per cent more greenhouse gas e..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347569-wet-pet-food-has-seven-times-the-carbon-emissions-of-dry-food/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Vladimir Sorokin's dystopian fantasy is a wild read, mixing political satire with steampunk microstates and a must-have psychotropic drug ba..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634130-400-telluria-review-political-dystopia-from-a-bravura-russian-writer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root causes of our pain, and why physical and emo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-300-why-emotions-can-feel-so-painful-and-what-it-means-for-painkillers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Meteorites bombarding the Red Planet may have carried so much water that it could have covered the planet in a layer 300 metres deep if spre..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347333-early-meteorites-brought-enough-water-to-mars-to-create-a-global-ocean/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn’t yet finished forming, along with a disc of debris that may eventu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347386-jwst-sees-a-stunning-hourglass-of-light-around-a-still-forming-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to reverse the environmentally damaging policies of his predecessor in a speech ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347429-cop27-brazils-lula-promises-zero-deforestation-in-the-amazon-by-2030/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Kynurenic acid is made in the brain and could play a role in psychosis related to schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and bipolar disorder – ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347122-acid-produced-by-the-brain-could-drive-disease-related-psychosis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users’ da..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345584-quantum-computers-in-use-today-are-vulnerable-to-eavesdropping-hackers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

With a growing number of people living with pain, we desperately need to understand it – but we are still unravelling the mysterious mechani..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-200-what-is-pain-how-does-it-work-and-what-happens-when-it-goes-wrong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Doctors are starting to see chronic pain as a condition in its own right, which is leading to new and more effective treatment options
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-500-viewing-chronic-pain-as-its-own-illness-is-providing-better-treatments/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New prefixes in the International System of Units could be confirmed on Friday, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347426-ronnametres-and-quettagrams-may-soon-join-the-ranks-of-si-units/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

This new kind of pain is poorly understood, as there is often no sign of injury, but as Graham Lawton explains in this personal account, we ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634132-400-we-are-only-just-beginning-to-understand-what-causes-nociplastic-pain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmospheric pressure can do it too if combined..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347294-landslides-can-be-triggered-by-small-changes-in-atmospheric-pressure/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that contain M1 chips may be able to do the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345550-a-stack-of-apple-laptops-could-work-as-a-powerful-supercomputer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The powerful Space Launch System rocket has finally launched. It took off from Cape Canaveral this morning and is the first step of NASA's p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335457-nasas-enormous-sls-rocket-has-launched-to-space-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous communities could be key to reversing th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347026-crucial-congo-rainforest-faces-growing-threats-from-logging-and-mining/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The bacteria that cause leprosy have been found to reprogram liver cells in armadillos and make the organ regrow, offering clues that could ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2346967-leprosy-bacteria-may-hold-the-key-to-helping-the-liver-regenerate/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Children and teenagers who were exposed to pre-eclampsia in the uterus may be more likely to have a stroke or develop coronary artery diseas..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347048-pre-eclampsia-may-raise-a-fetuss-risk-of-heart-disease-in-later-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Physicists have worked out how to see whether a black hole is actually a wormhole that could theoretically be travelled through – but we can..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2346618-how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-regular-black-hole-and-a-wormhole/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Experiments with mouse and human faeces have provided the most definitive proof yet that gas-producing gut microbes are responsible for maki..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2346620-we-now-know-why-some-poos-float-and-others-sink/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home